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Born in Los Angeles , USA , Angelina Jolie Voight is the daughter of actors Jon Voight and Marcheline Bertrand . She is the niece of Chip Taylor , the sister of James Haven , and the godchild of Jacqueline Bisset and Maximilian Schell . On the side of her father, Angelina Jolie is of German and Slovak origin 4 , 5 , and on the side of her mother, of French-Canadian and perhaps Iroquois origin 6 , 7. However, Jon Voight claimed that his ex-wife, Marcheline Bertrand, was "not really Iroquois 8 " . After the separation of her parents in 1976 and their divorce in 1977, Angelina Jolie and her brother were raised by their mother, who abandoned her ambitions as an actress and moved with them to Palisades , New York 9 , 10 . Child, Jolie regularly watched movies with her mother and later explained that this had inspired for his career as an actress , and she had not been influenced by his father 11. When she is eleven years old, the family returns to Los Angeles, Angelina Jolie decides to become an actress and enrolls at the Lee Strasberg Theater Institute , where she takes classes for two years.